Movies: Neo surrealism

The end of the world is imminent. A man goes into a parallel dimension, a limbo between reality and fantasy where the normal rules of time and space have ceased to apply. His wife goes to rescue him. Both will be trapped in a strange and cruel world ...

5 short films, from 5 directors and 4 different countries on the theme of the Alter-Ego. The "Alter Ego Film Project" is inspired by the spirit of Maya Deren and her way of making films. Between double personality, secret identity, doppelgänger and ...

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Events take a sinister turn one night in London, when two very different couples arrive at a double-booked apartment. Actions have consequences and not all debts are paid for with money. Leaving, it's harder than you think....

Samantha Moon, A young woman who lives by herself in the city must confront her past and future through her dreams whilst being stalked by a mysterious entity…...

The Tenant continuously fails to escape his deadly apartment within a 5 minute time limit as his blood-thirsty neighbor threatens him from behind the front door...

Mateo, a young Mexican man, embarks on a pilgrimage through Spain to confront his past, but becomes entangled in a dangerous Catholic cult where forbidden love threatens his very survival....

With input from actor and writer Jan Hlobil, director and cinematographer Rene Smaal presents a film in the true surrealist tradition, in the sense that only 'found' elements were used, and that it defies interpretation based on ordinary cause-and-ef...

Karma, an international high school student from Sikkim struggles to fit in and hold onto his cultural identity when he is stuck at home with his host sibling, Alex....

This film is about what the routine of everyday life can do to the human mind and psyche. It also reflects on the importance of the choices we make and how limited these choices are in the first place. The plot evolves around a family of four. They l...

To mark the 30th anniversary of L'Étrange Festival, Gaumont is opening up its archives to offer the best of its most secret, bizarre and crazy images, digitized for the first time. A unique program featuring black magic, surrealistic happenings, worl...

A student moves into their accomodation, only to find their room already decorated, a strange, inhuman flatmate, and a kettle that won't stop boiling....

Described as 'a fairytale with its roots in the worlds of dadaism and surrealism'....

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Marta, a young girl, finds herself locked in a library at night. The books begin to come to life and the real and the unreal merge....

Estranged lovers reconnect through the power of the Magic Conch Shell....

An art film produced using 'Darwinian' evolution with artist controlled aesthetic selection. Artificial life rules define the processes of mutation, breeding, birth, growth and decay to generate an imagery evolution of a complex three dimensional st...

Somnambulistic circus Ribera&Velazquez welcomes everyone to the show, where shadows, that escaped the platonic cave, turn the carousel in the foggy catacombs....

A woman is unaware that she is having a conversation with God....

After a sight-restoring surgery leaves him seeing surreal distortions, a photographer must rely on his camera to discern reality from illusion as he ventures outside for the first time....